Naturally Hypernatural I: Concepts of Nature

Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the nexus of art and the biological sciences. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institute, the Phillips Collection, P.S.1 Museum, the JP Getty Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in Japan. Her seminal text The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age (co-authored with the late Dorothy Nelkin) was published in 2004. She is the Chair of the Fine Arts Department of School of Visual Arts in New York since 2005.Sabine Flach is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Graz where she is also Chair of the Art History Institute. She studied art history, theory of literature, philosophy and humanities in Marburg, Perugia, Kassel and Berlin.

• Tom Huhn: On Nature and Human Coldness – Sabine Flach: How much Life is in a Still-Life? Art’s Hypernatural Nature – Gerhard Scharbert: Natural-Supernatural-Hypernatural. Modernity’s Struggle against Naturalism – Hans Dickel: Hybridformen zeitgenössischer Kunst mit Natur: in Werken von Per Kirkeby, Andreas Eriksson, Carsten Höller und Pierre Huyghe – Suzanne Anker: Petri(e)’s Panoply – Anselm Wagner: Inside the Green Room. The Ideology of Nature in Contemporary Architecture – Nicolas de Oliveira/Nicola Oxley: In the Play of Shadow – Jeanne Silverthorne: The Invisible Worm – Gary Sherman: Significant Other – Thomas Feuerstein: Flesh for Fantasy – Lois Weinberger: Notizen über ein Feld – Margit Stadlober: Creative Nature in Renaissance Landscape – Maureen Jeram: Painting a Portrait: From the Natural to the Hypernatural.